""In Search of Light" is the full-length follow-up to the well-received "Fountain" (Root Strata, 2010), Danny Paul Grody's debut solo release. Many listeners no doubt recognize Grody from his work in San Francisco-based groups Tarentel and The Drift. As a solo artist, he produces wistful, poignant music culled principally from acoustic guitar and synthesizer. Grody's work recalls aspects of the post-Takoma school in that fingerpicked, cyclical melodies make up the crux of many of his recordings. However, he also masterfully avoids the pitfalls of the genre, invariably favoring concision, lyricism and ideas over dexterity and flare. In listening to "In Search of Light," one can't help but imagine these recordings appearing on some lost private issue California folk LP from the late 70s- such is the timelessness of Grody's aesthetic." (label info)